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A comparison of MPI performance on different MPPs

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Abstract

Since MPI [1] has become a standard for message-passing on distributed memory machines a number of implementations have evolved. Today there is an MPI implementation available for all relevant MPP systems, a number of which is based on MPICH [2]. In this paper we are going to present performance comparison for several implementations of MPI on different MPPs. Results for the Cray T3E, the IBM RS/6000 SP, the Hitachi SR2201 and the Intel Paragon are presented. In addition we compare those results to the NEC SX-4, a shared memory PVP.

Results presented will show latency and bandwidth for point-to-point communication. In addition results for global communications and synchronization will be given. This covers a wide range of MPI features used by typical numerical simulation codes. Finally we investigate a core conjugate gradient solver operation to show the behaviour of latency-hiding techniques on different platforms.

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  1. Parallel Computing Department, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, D-70550, Stuttgart, Germany

    Michael Resch, Holger Berger & Thomas Boenisch

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  1. Michael Resch
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Marian Bubak Jack Dongarra Jerzy Waśniewski

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Resch, M., Berger, H., Boenisch, T. (1997). A comparison of MPI performance on different MPPs. In: Bubak, M., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63697-8_66

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